Valerie J. Estela-Pro, PhD
Director, External Scientific Affairs
vestela-pro@ndriresource.org
267.416.5208
Valerie Estela-Pro, PhD, joined NDRI in 2023 and is responsible for maintaining NDRI’s multiple NIH grants while working closely with researchers to facilitate and expand the use of NDRI as a research resource. She also leads the Pilot Award Program and the Pathology Integration Initiative, both of which are new components of the organization’s Human Tissues and Organs for Research Resource (HTORR) Program.
Dr. Estela-Pro brings more than a decade of research experience to her role. She worked as a Biologist at a CRO conducting preclinical trials of drugs and chemicals before completing her doctoral research on spatial memory encoding using in vivo electrophysiology at Brown University. Her post-doctoral work at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia focused on the effects of chronic stress on learning and memory.
